Daniel P. Mannix was born on October 27, 1911 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA as Daniel Pratt Mannix IV. He was a writer and director, known for The Fox and the Hound (1981), King of the Sky (1953) and Universal Color Parade: Parrot Jungle (1958). He died on January 29, 1997 in Malvern, Pennsylvania.